In the Court House in 1822 was tried a curious case in respect of a horse claimed by two parties, Major Heward, of York, and General Wadsworth, commandant of the United States Garrison at Fort Niagara.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Grushenka jumped up, seeming greatly alarmed.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Do not imagine, any more than I can bring myself to imagine, that I should be right in undertaking so great and difficult a task.
— from Timaeus by Plato

“Of Antigonus I will only make mention so far, as to avoid appearing to despise what was done, or to treat as unimportant so great an undertaking.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

solve, resolve, elucidate; unriddle, unravel, unlock, crack, crack open; pick up, open the lock; find a clue, find clew a to, find the key to the riddle; interpret &c. 522; disclose &c. 529. trace, get at; hit it, have it; lay one's finger, lay one's hands upon; spot; get at the truth, arrive at the truth &c. 494; put the saddle on the right horse, hit the right nail on the head.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

SO when they saw that they might not overcome him, they rode from him, and took their counsel to slay his horse; and so they came in upon Sir Gareth, and with spears they slew his horse, and then they assailed him hard.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

It seemed to be following her from behind, and she was frightened and whipped up her horse until she got away from it and never saw it again.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

So that as much as it is possible under so great a fall of my Lord Sandwich’s, and difference between them, I may conclude that I am thoroughly right with Sir W. Coventry.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Unlit she goeth and alone, With little understanding what A child's touch means of joy or woe,
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

Down below among the laurels and privets of the front garden her two youngest sisters were engaged upon some grubby and laborious task which, though they looked like two fat white rabbits, did not involve, so far as Norah could see, without leaning out of the window, any actual burrowing; and she was much too pleasantly occupied with her own thoughts to take the risk of having to interfere.
— from The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie

At this moment the alleged accomplices made their appearance on the scene, and "concurring together, maist cruelli and feirslie set upoun Sir George, and be force and violence drave him and his company back to the Castell porte, quhair he was fred and relevit of the present danger".
— from In Byways of Scottish History by Louis A. Barbé

The Legend of the Friar's Heel The devil, so the story runs, determined one day to undertake some great and stupendous work, for the like of which he is famous throughout the world.
— from Stonehenge, Today and Yesterday by Frank Stevens

The covenant then is everlasting in itself, being established upon so good a foundation, and therefore standeth in itself everlastingly bent for the good of them that are involved in it.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

However, before you undertake so great a voyage, I would have you perfectly recovered, and then we will take such measures as are necessary.
— from Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights by E. Dixon

In Prince Albert v. Strange, 1 McN. & G. 25 (1849), Lord Cottenham, on appeal, while recognizing a right of property in the etchings which of itself would justify the issuance of the injunction, stated, after discussing the evidence, that he was bound to assume that the possession of the etchings by the defendant had "its foundation in a breach of trust, confidence, or contract," and that upon such ground also the plaintiff's title to the injunction was fully sustained.
— from The Right to Privacy by Samuel D. (Samuel Dennis) Warren

So the Tories gave up shouting, groaning and laughing; the more quickly because one at least of their chiefs, the Marquis of Salisbury (then in the House of Commons as Lord Cranbourne) had the spirit and sense to express openly and loudly his anger and disgust at the vulgar and brutal behaviour of some of his followers.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

With his great loads of sorrow the Captain said in public that all of us should be witnesses, because if he should die, it should remain in the memory of the people that these two months and a-half of summer that he was delayed at Callao had robbed him of the power of following up so great an enterprise as was the present, while only half an hour of time took it from his hands.
— from The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

Mr. Dolan polled 1,200 votes and his opponent some 800 or 900 more, a result which, considering that all the big-wigs of the Party had been sent down to the campaign, was a moral victory for Sinn Fein and heartened the movement immensely; but it undoubtedly set going a reaction against it in the country, and it arrested the flow of converts from the Parliamentarian policy.
— from Sinn Fein: An Illumination by P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield) O'Hegarty